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Why Is Lindsay Clancy's Old Job Being Used Against Her?
Lindsay Clancy spent her career as a labor and delivery nurse helping mothers through the most vulnerable moments of their lives. Prosecutors say that same job is proof she knew exactly how to work the people who were supposed to save her. She's charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, at their Duxbury, Massachusetts home on January 24, 2023. She's pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. Roughly three months before the killings, prosecutors say she typed something about her older children into her phone, a note a prosecutor l...
Published: Jul 27, 2026Duration: 38m 46s
Nolan Wells' Friends Are Now Facing THIS
There are two autopsies on Nolan Wells, a six-figure reward fund, and a growing list of people getting threatened online, and only one of those things is actually backed by evidence. The independent exam, commissioned by the family and performed by Dr. Roger Mitchell, came back undetermined. No fractures. No deep tissue injuries. No lacerations. The discoloration on the back of his skull can't tell anyone how Nolan entered the water, or whether he was even conscious at the time. The state completed its own autopsy on July 7th. It's still sealed inside a Jackson County file. What i...
Published: Jul 26, 2026Duration: 57m 16s
Why Did Lindsay Clancy's Jury Lose The Middle Ground?
There used to be a middle ground in the Lindsay Clancy case. As of July 9, there isn't one anymore. Prosecutors dropped all three strangulation charges against Lindsay Clancy that day, calling them redundant. What that filing actually did was erase the space between the two remaining verdicts: life without parole, or not criminally responsible. No compromise. No lesser finding for the jury to land on if they're not fully convinced either way. Lindsay is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, at their Duxbury, Massachusetts home in...
Published: Jul 26, 2026Duration: 43m 51s
Josh Duggar Claims His Own Sisters Did WHAT?!
The family that reported Joseph Duggar to police has lost almost everything, and understanding why starts with how this family actually operates. Joseph, thirty-one, is facing two felony counts in Florida connected to what happened to a child during a 2020 family vacation. He's pleaded not guilty, but the arrest affidavit says he admitted what happened twice, once to the child's father and once to detectives on a monitored call. His parents posted his bond. The people who went to police instead of keeping it quiet were his own in-laws, the Caldwells, a Baptist pastor's family who broke a two-decade...
Published: Jul 26, 2026Duration: 35m 57s
Did Lindsay Clancy's Doctors Know She Was Getting Worse?
Everyone around Lindsay Clancy saw her getting worse. Her husband saw it and said so, directly to her doctors. The question this episode asks is simple: did the people treating her know, and if they did, why did they raise her medication instead of pulling back? She would go on to kill Cora, Dawson, and Callan, and both sides now agree on that fact — only her mental state at the time is in dispute. Tony Brueski is joined by psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Night Bird, to examine the treatment record behind Lindsay Clancy's ongoing murder trial in Plymouth, Mas...
Published: Jul 26, 2026Duration: 42m 52s
What Joseph Duggar's Arrest Reveals About The Family
Joseph Duggar's arrest in Bay County, Florida isn't just a new headline for the Duggar family, it's a hinge point that connects a 2015 television confession, a 2003 cover-up, and a completely separate child endangerment case eight hundred miles away in Ohio. Tony Brueski starts with the tape: Joseph Duggar, on camera in December of 2015, describing his brother Josh's secret life and calling it heartbreaking. Then the 2026 affidavit alleging Joseph Duggar asked a nine-year-old girl to sit on his lap on a family trip to Panama City Beach. He's pleaded not guilty and posted a six hundred thousand dollar bond. I...
Published: Jul 26, 2026Duration: 46m 11s
Lindsay Clancy's Doctors Never Asked Her WHAT?!
Lindsay Clancy told her doctors she was having intrusive thoughts. Her lawsuit says nobody ever asked her the one follow-up question that might have changed everything. Lindsay, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, at their Duxbury, Massachusetts home in January 2023. She's pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. Between September 2022 and January 2023, she was prescribed at least nine different psychiatric medications. Her husband, Patrick, has said she seemed to be acting like a...
Published: Jul 25, 2026Duration: 38m 21s
Does Leaving Nolan Wells Behind Count As A Crime?
Nobody has to push someone off a boat for a death to become a crime. Prosecutors may be about to test that with the Nolan Wells case. Nolan was eighteen, a wide receiver at Southwest Mississippi Community College from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. On the Fourth of July, he and a group of friends took a boat out to Horn Island, an uninhabited barrier island roughly ten miles off the Mississippi coast. He was last seen there around three in the afternoon. His friends left without him. A National Park Service ranger recovered his body two mornings later, off t...
Published: Jul 25, 2026Duration: 56m 57s
Why Is Nolan Wells' Case Now Headed To A Grand Jury?
A district attorney doesn't send a drowning to a grand jury. So why is that exactly what's happening in the Nolan Wells case? Nolan was eighteen, a wide receiver at Southwest Mississippi Community College from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. On the Fourth of July he went out to Horn Island, an uninhabited barrier island roughly ten miles off the Mississippi coast, with a group of friends. No buildings, no fresh water, no service, just boats until dark, and then everyone heads back to the mainland. His friends made it home. He didn't. A National Park Service ranger found hi...
Published: Jul 25, 2026Duration: 46m 56s
Lindsay Clancy's Judge Blocked WHAT From Other Moms?!
A judge just decided the jury in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial won't hear from anyone who's actually lived through what her defense says she was living through. Lindsay Clancy is charged with killing her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months, in their Duxbury, Massachusetts home in January 2023. She's pleading not guilty by reason of insanity, and her attorneys wanted other mothers who've experienced postpartum psychosis to testify about what that actually looks like from the inside. The judge said no. Here's what the jury will hear instead: that Lindsay was prescribed at least te...
Published: Jul 25, 2026Duration: 41m 29s
Siders' 14-Year-Old Bride And The Judge Who Forgot
Siders family Gallia County Ohio child marriage judge — in 2002, a Gallia County judge approved a marriage license for a fourteen-year-old pregnant girl and a forty-eight-year-old man named Richard E. Siders, a cousin of Gary Siders Sr. When asked about it years later, that judge said he vaguely remembered and acknowledged that no investigation was ever conducted.That marriage was the first of at least three involving girls between fourteen and fifteen connected to the Siders family across two Ohio counties and West Virginia. In each case, the law allowed parents and judges to sign off on marriages th...
Published: Jul 25, 2026Duration: 18m 29s
Nolan Wells And d4vd: What A Defense Attorney Sees
Nolan Wells and d4vd — a defense attorney and former prosecutor looks at two of the most watched cases in true crime and examines what the evidence actually supports.In d4vd, the preliminary hearing put sealed evidence into open court: a digital trail of orders for chainsaws, a cadaver bag, a burn cage, and more — all allegedly under aliases, all allegedly shipped to his own address. But the defense established the chainsaws tested negative for blood and no DNA analysis followed. Evidence handling was challenged. The financial-motive special circumstance faces pushback after testimony that the defendant barely controlled his...
Published: Jul 25, 2026Duration: 59m 20s
Nolan Wells’ Autopsy Said One Thing Both Sides Won’t Touch
Nolan Wells' independent autopsy results came back undetermined. But inside that finding are two separate conclusions that everyone with a platform is refusing to separate. The autopsy checked for evidence of physical force and found none. No fractures, no deep tissue injuries, no lacerations on an eighteen-year-old athlete's body. Those findings stand regardless of the limitations in the report. But the autopsy could not answer the drowning question because the first examination in Mississippi had already dissected the organs, retained the neck structures, and examined the airway — all standard forensic procedure, confirmed by the independent pathologist's own report. Tony la...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 32m 51s
What d4vd's Lawyer Proved About Those Chainsaws In Court
d4vd — the preliminary hearing put sealed evidence into open court and the defense used every minute of cross-examination to attack the prosecution's physical evidence. Blair Berk established that all three chainsaws recovered from the defendant's residence tested negative for blood. Prosecutors never ordered DNA testing on any of them. The tools that the prosecution says were used in the alleged dismemberment of Celeste Rivas Hernandez have no biological material connecting them to the crime.Berk also went after evidence handling: the cadaver bag was not fully preserved during collection and the burn cage was not seized during the in...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 16m 19s
d4vd's Location Data Put Him WHERE After Celeste Died?!
The prosecution's case against d4vd shifted from evidence to motive on Day 2 of his preliminary hearing — and then digital records allegedly put Burke on a remote highway ninety-five miles from his home. An Interscope executive and a money manager testified that Burke earned more than $10 million between 2022 and 2025, establishing the financial stakes prosecutors say drove the alleged killing of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The money manager admitted knowing Celeste's first name before the body was found. He also testified that after the remains were discovered, Burke's team switched to encrypted messaging and Burke discussed transferring properties to protect them fr...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 18m 7s
Why Nolan Wells' Autopsy Was Announced In Chicago, Not Mississippi
Nolan Wells — the family's independent autopsy results came back undetermined. They were announced at the NAACP National Convention in Chicago by attorney Ben Crump, with Nolan's parents present. The investigation is in Jackson County, Mississippi, where the DA has already met with the family and agreed to present the completed investigation to a grand jury. The FBI is involved. Sixty witnesses have been interviewed.But the announcement wasn't made in consultation with investigators. It was made at a civil rights convention with national press. The NAACP president called Mississippi officials "derelict" — while those same officials are actively cooperating with a gr...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 24m 15s
What Nolan Wells' Autopsy Could Never Check
Nolan Wells — two separate autopsies have been performed on this eighteen-year-old's body and neither can provide a cause of death. The independent examination came back undetermined. The state examination has not been released. And one critical part of the body — the neck structures — was retained by Mississippi's medical examiner, so the family's pathologist could never examine it for evidence of strangulation.Three hundred people were on Horn Island. Not one has described seeing a crime. Sixty witnesses have spoken to law enforcement. The three friends present cooperated and gave statements matching dispatch audio from the Coast Guard. A forensic examin...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 19m 24s
What d4vd's Postmates Receipt Revealed About The Day After Celeste Died
The preliminary hearing in the d4vd murder case began with testimony that laid out a digital and financial trail prosecutors allege leads directly to David Anthony Burke. Detective Joshua Byers of LAPD Robbery-Homicide testified about purchases made under aliases, paid with Burke's own accounts, and delivered to his own home in the weeks and months following the alleged death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Burke has pleaded not guilty to all charges.The prosecution walked the court through each purchase in chronological order — from a shovel acquired the day after the alleged killing to a bu...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 19m 42s
Could Anyone Have Stopped What Happened To Lindsay Clancy?
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and Tony Brueski sit down for the full conversation on the Lindsay Clancy murder trial — from the clinical reality of postpartum psychosis to the public debate that has turned this case into the most divisive trial in true crime.Lindsay Clancy is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of her children Cora, Dawson, and Callan in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023. Her defense concedes she killed them and argues she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis. The prosecution argues deliberate planning.Shavaun starts with what the public gets wrong about the po...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 58m 3s
What Nolan Wells' Friends Never Told His Mother About His Phone
Nolan Wells' friends came back from Horn Island with his phone and his car keys on July 4th. They didn't tell his mother they had either one. Christine Wonsley tracked the phone down herself — and when she opened it, the Snapchat messages from that day were gone.Now the phone is headed for a forensic examination with both the family's legal team and the Jackson County DA participating. The FBI is assisting with digital evidence analysis. The inspection will determine whether those missing messages were manually deleted, whether they were never sent in the first place, or wh...
Published: Jul 23, 2026Duration: 27m 36s